FOG BLOG ENTERTAINMENT LOG: SONYA EDDY WHO WAS NURSE 'EPIPHANY' ON GENERAL HOSPTIAL- DEAD AT 55!

Sonya Eddy, ‘General Hospital’ Actress, Dies at 55

Ms. Eddy played Epiphany Johnson, the head nurse on the long-running ABC daytime series, for 16 years. Sonya Eddy, who played the no-nonsense head nurse Epiphany Johnson in more than 500 episodes of the enduring ABC soap opera “General Hospital,” died on Monday in Burbank, Calif. She was 55.

Tyler Ford, her producing partner, said the cause of her death, at a hospital, was an infection following nonemergency surgery.

Ms. Eddy joined the cast of “General Hospital” in 2006 as the head nurse of the hospital where much of the show is set and quickly established herself as a fan favorite. “General Hospital,” a fixture of ABC’s daytime lineup for nearly six decades, follows the adventures of characters who live in the fictional town of Port Charles, N.Y. Ms. Eddy appeared in 543 episodes of the show over 16 years, the most recent of which aired on Oct. 20. She also played Epiphany in 25 episodes in the spinoff “General Hospital: Night Shift” in 2007 and 2008. Her character was the mother of Stan Johnson, who was killed in a mob hit.

Sonya Eddy was born on June 17, 1967, in Concord, Calif. She was a theater and dance major at the University of California, Davis, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1992, according to the Internet Movie Database. While she was a student there, she made her acting debut onstage in a production of “Zora Is My Name!,” about the author Zora Neale Hurston.